At least in the hearts of its underserved audience, the film flourishes to this day.
To celebrate the reason Jackson mattered, and still matters, we’ve compiled a list of our 10 favorite singles.
The show is massively successful at demonstrating that Jackson was an extraordinary artist putting forth extraordinary art.
Dangerous upped the stakes while cunningly inverting Michael Jackson’s playbook.
Artistically somewhat monotonous but substantively devastating, the film doesn’t conclude with much in the way of closure.
Throughout, the dancer turned singer busts out some “Papa Don’t Preach” footwork, “Vogue”-style shoulder rolls, and gravity-defying moves reminiscent of Michael Jackson.
Posthumous albums are usually artifacts mostly for loyal fans, but Michael Jackson wasn’t your usual pop star.
The DJ/producer is credited with helping to popularize Chicago house in the wake of disco’s greatly exaggerated demise.
“G.U.Y.” returns Gaga to her previous visual excesses.
Katy Perry has chosen to set herself up for another public flogging by setting the video for “Dark Horse” in Memphis.
You can count Joe Pesci’s star vehicles on one hand, and people will tell you My Cousin Vinny is the only worthwhile title.
The most impacting thing True/False does every year is its True Life Fund.
What she declares about her craft is, thus far, the most telling element of the ever-chugging Beyoncé train.
The most obvious Reagan-era reference here is Ken Russell’s 1984 sex thriller Crimes of Passion.
Michael is a bit like Bruce Lee’s Game of Death.
Well, now we know why 40 of the first 50 words in “Breaking News” are simply “Michael Jackson” over and over again.
Most sadly, The Wiz collapses under the weight of its creators’ own good intentions.
This Is It is, in spite of all efforts made by Sony and their team of embalmers to obfuscate it, a genuinely haunted document.
The music of Michael Jackson still serves as a crucible for our various compromises and self-imposed psychological barriers.
From strip clubs to belligerent backyard parties, Trailer Park Boys: The Movie plays straight and easily flies over one’s head.